Joe Clifford Faust

AGE: 39 or so...

PLACE OF BIRTH: Williston, North Dakota

ADOPTED HOME TOWN: Gillette, Wyoming

CURRENT RESIDENCE: His wife's ancestral home in Ohio -- a 140 year-old on land signed over to the family by President Polk.

PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS: Projectionist, record store clerk, radio announcer, sheriff's dispatcher, advertising copywriter, DTP jockey, credit card collector.

VEHICLE OF CHOICE: A Saturn (What else would an SF writer drive?)

DIVERSIONS: Readiang, Firearms, Listenning to music, Chili.

FIVE BOOKS READ RECENTLY: Infinity's Shore by David Brin; Executive Orders by Tom Clancy; Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever; Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling; The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson

WHY WRITE SCIENCE FICTION: SF makes it easy to handle tough subjects by putting a comfortable distance between the reader and the subject matter. All of his SF novels are about our times -- but if The Company Man or had been mainstream books, people would have run from them.

WHY THE SIX YEAR GAP BETWEEN HIS LAST BOOK AND FERMAN'S DEVILS: It wasn't like he wasn't busy. He wrote Ferman, plus all of Trust, a third of Yaszawa, and half of another mainstream thriller called Amnesia Game. He would have gotten more done, but he also had a sould-crushing mundane job that slowed him down.

NEXT PROJECT: Boddekker's Demons the "second half" of Ferman's Devils; Yaszawa, about a stranger who comes to a far-flung world that has all but forgotten Earth; and Trust, a mainstream political thriller which pits a tabloid writer against a presidential candidate.

WHAT HE'D BE DOING IF HE WASN'T WRITING: He'd be one of those unhappy loser types who talks to himself a lot and changes jobs every 3 to 5 years.

Bibliography

• Old Loves Die Hard (play) Players' Press, December, 1986
• A Death of Honor Del Rey, February 1987, Main Selection, Science Fiction Book Club
• The Company Man Del Rey, October 1988, Hayakawa, Japan
• Angel's Luck
  • Desparate Measures Del Rey, July 1989, Main Selection, Science Fiction Book Club, haykawa, Japan
  • Precious Cargo Del Rey, January 1990, Main Selection, Science Fiction Book Club, haykawa, Japan
  • The Essence of Evil Del Rey, April 1990, Featured Alternate Selection, Science Fiction Book Club, Hayakawa, Japan
• Pembroke Hall
  • Ferman's Devils Bantam, December 1996
  • Boddekker's Demons Bantam, October, 1997